Jury-list-stamping apparatus.



No. 678,307. A Patented lgllyv 9, |901.

, IW. M. THOMAS.;

JUBY LIST STAMPING APPARATUS.'

(Application filed Aug. 7, 1900,) No Model.)

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UNITED; STATESIfPAT-ENT rIQrrIQEf WILLIAM M. THOMAS, OFJGRIFFIN, GEORGIA.

.1u RYFLIST-STAM Pme APPARATUS."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,307, dated July e, i901.

Application filed August 7,1900. Serial No. 26,176. (No model.) v

To a/ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM M. THOMAS, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Griffin, in the county of Spalding and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Jury-List-Stamping Apparatus, of which the following is a speci ication.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in a jury-box device, and has for its objectl to assist the clerk of the court in speedily makingany number of lists of jurors as they are selected.

Heretofore it has been the custom forthe clerk to write by hand the names of the jurors as they are selected and called out by the judge and then to make a great number of copies of this list by some convenient process; but this is always attended with great delay and considerable trouble, to avoid whichlhave devised the apparatus and proci ess of the present invention.

In this invention I employ a case in which are separately seated stamp-blocks bearing the names in rubber-faced type of all persons selected as eligible to serve as jurors. Each stamp-block, as well as its individual seat in the case, is provided with a' number which corresponds respectively with the numbers on the name-slips in the jury-box. These name-slips are selected by the judge one by one and their names and numbers are read off, when the clerk at a glance distinguishes the seat of that number on the case or cabinet and withdraws the stamp-block therefrom and inserts it in a panel block or holder, which when completed forms a convenient ready-made impression-stamp with which full lists of the jurors'as selected and impaneled may be printed immediately and in as great a quantity as may be desired.

My invention further consists of the novel details of construction -and combination of parts to be described in the following specification, and fully set forth in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, and in which like characters of reference indicate similar parts throughout, Figure 1 is a plan view of acase or cabinet containing the stampblocks of my invention. Fig. 2 is a transverse Fig. 3

section thereof on the line @c a: of Fg.1.

is a plan view lof a pair of panel-blocks or panel-holders, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a panel-block having one stampblock seated therein and another stamp-block in the act of being seated.

In the drawings, ct represents a c ase or cabinet divided longitudinally'by'strips b, which receive the ends of the numerous partitionplates c, forming parallel tiers of seats or pigeonholes, in which are located the stampblocks d. These stamp-blocks are numbered consecutively and correspond to the numbers on the faces of strips b opposite the seats.

' T-he panel-blocks e are each provided with twelve (l2) numbered slots f, with tapering walls to form a dovetail connection with the tapering sides of the stamp-.blocks d when said stamp-blocks are slid therein. To insure a firm connection between these stamp- .blocks and the panel-block, the slots f have their bottoms covered with strips g of rubber or other suitable material, and the face of the panel=block between these slots f is covered with slightly-projecting strips h, also of rubber or like material.

With the above-described apparatus the clerk instead of writing by handrthe name and number of each juror called by the judge simply selects from his cabinet the stampblock in the seat of the number called and then inserts it in his panel-block, and by this process when the full panel has been called he has a ready-made rubber stamp containing that panel and is prepared to furnish immediately any number of lists thereof by simply printing with the panel-block thus filled as an impression-stamp.

It is obvious that numerous departures from the details of arrangement and construction may be resorted to without avoiding the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is f.

1. A jury-list-stamping apparatus, comprising a cabinet provided with numbered seats and stamp-blocks located in said numbered seats, and a panel-block provided with slots for the reception of said stamp-blocks, substantially as described.

' 2. In a device of the character described, a cabinet provided with numbered seats and IOO stamp face-mountings located in said numbered seats, and a panel-block provided with tapering slots for the reception of said stampbloeks, said tapering slots being provided with elastic strips seated in the bottom of said tapering slots and mounted on the face of the panel-block between said tapering slots, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM M. THOMAS.

Witnesses:

A. J. BURR, C. B. THOMAS. 

